Mike Allen, the coach at San Jose Gunderson High, disciplined his entire starting five of supposed bad-acting players and then had the rest of the team walk out on him. That prompted the ascension of underclassmen to varsity and a current 3-16 record, the San Jose Mercury reports.

The newspaper has drawn comparisons between the Gunderson situation to that of coach Ken Carter at Richmond High in 1999. Carter benched his players for not living up to his academic standards and then had a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson made about his stand.

The controversy has divided the Silicon Valley campus, as this link details: